Example sentences of "have been [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody has been through fur twenty-four hours and the telephone to Chilete , the last village before the summit , is out of action . |
| 2 | These attitudes are in striking contrast to the British tradition , where party conflict is the primary institutional feature of Westminster and has been for over a century . |
| 3 | This is what it has been like during the dry season in Brazil for the past two years . |
| 4 | ‘ I admit that 's what it has been like in the past . ’ |
| 5 | Psychoanalytic thinking has had a deep influence on psychiatry and psychology in the twentieth century , but this has been by no means decisive , and its increasingly fragmented theories have been subjected to continuous criticism . |
| 6 | While psychoanalysis itself is very expensive , time-consuming , not available on the National Health Service , and therefore practised on only a small number of people , its influence has been by no means confined to those directly benefiting from treatment . |
| 7 | Yet , even when this has been allowed for , the balance of forces between the continuing general oral culture and the selective technically transmitted culture has been in at least some respects altered , and with it the nature of the asymmetry between the institutions of cultural production and the broader institutions of general social and cultural reproduction . |
| 8 | Mrs Margaret Jones : ‘ David arrived home carrying the statuette that he 'd won at the song contest that he 'd been to with Ken Pitt and dashed straight upstairs to see his father who had n't been well for a number of days . |
| 9 | Philip saw a photograph of the house he 'd been to with Mrs Wright , only it was a different time of year . |
| 10 | It may have been at about the same time that monks were installed in the church of St Edmund at Bury . |
| 11 | Some idea of who Billy might have been with on his zoo liberation raid . |
| 12 | And people have stopped us and have said , If this i if you 'd have been on on the flats , say six , ten years ago , erm it would n't have got the reputation it has now . |
| 13 | The Rock and Ice imprint must have been worth at least a grade . |
| 14 | Lehmann must have been worth at least two billion yuan . |
| 15 | Imagine what it would have been like without the railway . |
| 16 | As I picked my way through the frozen woods towards the observation post which commands a unique view over the former battle-ground of the Marne , I wondered what it must have been like to be a soldier . |
| 17 | ‘ If you do n't go , you 'll have it at the back of your mind for the rest of your life , wondering what it would have been like to really know him . |
| 18 | Anyone who has romantic ideas of what it must have been like for great women and men to be filled with God 's Spirit should think again if the story of Mary is anything to go by . |
| 19 | Mr Justice Judge told Mrs Salmon , of Park Gate , Hants : ‘ I ca n't imagine what the last 10 years must have been like for you waiting for this to be sorted out . ’ |
| 20 | To be greeted by complete strangers with instant derision was a sobering experience , and it vividly reminded me of what it must have been like for those first black people , in the eighteenth century , walking the streets of England freely . |
| 21 | There was no easy way to answer the bitterness in her voice , and Julia remembered what David had said about his mother 's probable feelings during the war and tried to imagine what it must have been like for Mrs Wallington , stuck in Scotland , knowing only a little but guessing all too much of what was happening to her own country — and to her two sons . |
| 22 | We forget what life must have been like for people without anaesthetics and painkillers . |
| 23 | Settling in , I looked out of the window and reflected on what it must have been like for the men building the Trans-Australia Railway when hundreds of navvies , using horses , camels and a few machines , battled their way across the inhospitable plain , which in winter crackles underfoot with frost while summer temperatures exceed a baking 50°C . |
| 24 | He says for the first time in his life , he 's known what life must have been like for the old masters . |
| 25 | £ But I think to give us perhaps a more vivid idea of what it must have been like for ordinary people , these are 3 houses in St Aldate 's that do n't exist any more , they 're down more-or-less where the police station is , erm and we do know exactly who lived there , and who was actually there during the war . |
| 26 | A trip to Lombok , the next island along , gives a taste of what Bali might have been like before tourism . |
| 27 | ‘ And imagine what it must have been like before all those modern office ‘ towers ’ were built to dwarf it — especially if you happened to be a traitor . |
| 28 | He could only speculate what they would have been like in colour . |
| 29 | It is difficult to say what her speech would have been like in 1960 when she first arrived in London . |
| 30 | , how did you did you find it , going back to a heavy engineering plant like after having been at for a while ? |